To A. A. van Bemmelen 12 February 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841 |
From A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth 6 February 1877
Summary
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
| Author: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10831 |
To Pieter Harting 19 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for account of his work. Cannot read Dutch, but son has translated it.
Thanks for album sent by PH’s countrymen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Pieter Harting |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10899 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … the letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 . Apart from the …
- … 1877 ); CD’s annotated offprint is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Harting prefaced his article on CD’s contributions to science with a translation into Dutch of the letters published in Nature , 8 March 1877, pp. 410–12 (see letter from A. A. van Bemmelen …
From Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
From J. V. Carus 22 March 1877
Summary
A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10909 |
To Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
To C. G. Semper 30 April 1877
Summary
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (March 1994); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945F |
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
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- … 1877, p. 356, reported that on the occasion of CD’s 69th birthday, he had received an album of photographs of 154 German scientists, and another one containing photographs of 217 distinguished professors and lovers of science from Holland. CD was 68 on 12 February 1877. The German album was sent with the letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 , and the Dutch one was sent with the letter from A. A. van Bemmelen …
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